http://www.geebobg.com/2006/10/16/vincent-price-in-plea-from-the-saint/ Americlecticintellectica Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:12:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.geebobg.com/2006/10/16/vincent-price-in-plea-from-the-saint/#comment-2844 gee bobg » Blog Archive » I’ll give you a pink pill for that Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:24:06 +0000 http://www.emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2006/10/16/vincent-price-in-plea-from-the-saint/#comment-2844 [...] Barry Levinson), if past performance is any guarantee of future results, the new Saint will be sucktastic, at least compared to the canonical pulp-novella Saint from the [...] [...] Barry Levinson), if past performance is any guarantee of future results, the new Saint will be sucktastic, at least compared to the canonical pulp-novella Saint from the [...]

]]> http://www.geebobg.com/2006/10/16/vincent-price-in-plea-from-the-saint/#comment-73 gee bobg » Blog Archive » Criticize things you don’t know about Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:07:41 +0000 http://www.emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2006/10/16/vincent-price-in-plea-from-the-saint/#comment-73 [...] Jef Poskanzer, a former colleague of mine and a celebrity of sorts from the heyday of the WELL and Usenet, once formulated “Poskanzer’s Maxim,” which has now propagated itself into conventional wisdom: “Every spelling flame contains a spelling error.” My tirade was a spelling flame of sorts, and so it contained an error of sorts. I realized it years later when I learned that “loo” is British slang for a toilet. (Amazingly you can read every Sherlock Holmes and Saint story their originators ever wrote, as I had, and still never encounter that fact.) Far from being stupid, the intentional misspelling was actually quite clever. Of course as everyone knows that’s a fine line. [...] [...] Jef Poskanzer, a former colleague of mine and a celebrity of sorts from the heyday of the WELL and Usenet, once formulated “Poskanzer’s Maxim,” which has now propagated itself into conventional wisdom: “Every spelling flame contains a spelling error.” My tirade was a spelling flame of sorts, and so it contained an error of sorts. I realized it years later when I learned that “loo” is British slang for a toilet. (Amazingly you can read every Sherlock Holmes and Saint story their originators ever wrote, as I had, and still never encounter that fact.) Far from being stupid, the intentional misspelling was actually quite clever. Of course as everyone knows that’s a fine line. [...]

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